Konica Corporation

Hitachi-Kokusai Electric Inc.

Lotte Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd.

Tanax, Inc.

Kiyoshi Kanai

Hiromi Nakanishi

Kiyoaki Hazama

Ken Ishida

Yoshinori Otani

Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto

Yoshinori Tanaka

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Tohru Kaneko

Masashi Mamura

Noriho Tanaka

Katsumasa Kishida

To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display rackstobased upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data baseby using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data baseby using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding unitstoat a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.

Product display rack system, product display rack method, and product display rack program

A system with an intelligent shelf () has product display shelves (to) displaying products having RFID tags R. The system includes antennas (to) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products and a control computer () detecting that a particular product is picked up from and/or returned to a particular product display shelf by combining the input tag serial number and the antenna number of the antenna detecting the tag serial number and analyzing which direction the detected human body has moved based on the difference of the detection times of the human body sensors.

Product display rack system and purchasing behavior analysis program

A strobe device, including: a strobe circuit board; a connecting conductor composed of a wire member; and a strobe emitting portion which includes; a) a light emitting tube, having electrode terminals on its both ends, b) a reflector for reflecting strobe light emitted by the light emitting tube toward a photographic object and c) a transmission window for covering a front surface of the reflector and for transmitting the strobe light. In the strobe device, the connecting conductor has a contact with the light emitting tube and electricity is supplied to the light emitting tube through the connecting conductor.

Strobe device of lens-fitted film unit and production method of the strobe device

A wrapping device in which two rotating drums (18, 20) of identical circumferential velocities are arranged symmetrically and one of the rotating drums (18) is provided around its circumference with a number of recesses (36) adapted to receive the sheet articles from an open bottom (32) of the hopper (16) in which a number of the sheet articles are stored in superposition whereas the opposite rotating drum (20) is provided around its circumference with a number of receivers (78) which first hold the wrapping paper and then catch the sheet article transmitted from the rotating drum (18), so that the wrapping operation is continuously performed by the synchronous rotation of the wrapping drums (18, 20) with folding of the wrapping paper.

Apparatus for wrapping a sheet article

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Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Kanai